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#1 Postby alicia-w » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:22 am

Woman Gives Birth to Giant Baby

It hurts just thinking about this, C-section or not!!!

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a ``giant baby,'' a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.

Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.

``Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section,'' hospital director Rita Leal said. ``Both mother and baby are doing just fine.''

Ademilton ``could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs,'' pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.


Santos has four other children - ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 - who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.


``She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big'' Leal said. ``She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise.''


The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for girls.
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#2 Postby wxcrazy » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:23 am

alicia-w wrote:Woman Gives Birth to Giant Baby

It hurts just thinking about this, C-section or not!!!

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a ``giant baby,'' a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.

Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was the largest baby born at the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in its 12-year history, the hospital said.

``Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section,'' hospital director Rita Leal said. ``Both mother and baby are doing just fine.''

Ademilton ``could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs,'' pediatrician Luiz Sena Azul told the Correio da Bahia newspaper.


Santos has four other children - ages 9, 12, 14, and 15 - who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.


``She knew Ademilton would be a big baby, but not this big'' Leal said. ``She, her husband and the hospital staff were caught by surprise.''


The average weight for newborns in Brazil is 7.7 pounds for boys and 6.6 pounds for girls.


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#3 Postby alicia-w » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:23 am

And I thought 10.5 was big. My son was 10.5 pounds. Not C-section either. Whew!
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#4 Postby Guest » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:24 am

I imagine that the labor process was not necessarily a comforting, soothing experience! :eek:
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#5 Postby sunny » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:26 am

The woman deserves a medal!
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#6 Postby JenBayles » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:30 am

alicia-w wrote:And I thought 10.5 was big. My son was 10.5 pounds. Not C-section either. Whew!

Alicia deserves one too! Yeeee-haaaaaawww!!!
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#7 Postby alicia-w » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:33 am

I got my medal. That kid is a sweetheart! He's now 16, 6'4", 245 lbs.

A giant teddy bear.
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#8 Postby Brent » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:34 am

:crazyeyes: :shocked!:
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#9 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:35 am

I have a friend whose Mother weighed a little over 15 pounds at birth. Unbelievable. These babies are half grown when they are born. :lol:
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#10 Postby Miss Mary » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:15 pm

Here was my first thought....

1. This woman must have had a C-section!

And my next thought....

2. I bet that baby is sleeping thru the night already!!!

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#11 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:57 pm

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#12 Postby Pburgh » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:04 pm

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Granny was 4'11" and very tiny. My Aunt Dana weighed 13# when she was born. Granny had natural child birth!!!!!!!!!!
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#13 Postby cycloneye » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:08 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144938,00.html

At link there is a photo of the Giant Boy.
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#14 Postby sunny » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:23 pm

cycloneye wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144938,00.html

At link there is a photo of the Giant Boy.


I think Luis is in awe of this child!!
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#15 Postby SouthernWx » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:32 pm

Pburgh wrote:OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Granny was 4'11" and very tiny. My Aunt Dana weighed 13# when she was born. Granny had natural child birth!!!!!!!!!!


Same here....
My grandmother is only 5'0" tall, and at birth my father weighed 15 lbs; it was also a natural childbirth, but almost killed my grandmother (dad was born during a heat wave...99° the day he was born --and their old farmhouse had no air conditioning or electric fans...not in 1933 :eek: :(

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